Voices of Islam / Vincent J. Cornell, general editor and volume editor.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. Voices of tradition -- Miracle of sound at the Ka'ba / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore -- Pillars of religion and faith / Karima Diane Alavi -- Ramadan house guest / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore -- The Qur'an, the word of God / Mustansir Mir -- Drunkenness of the word / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore -- Encountering the Qur'an : contexts and approaches / James Winston Morris -- Moses and the saint / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore -- Prophets and messengers of God / Joseph Lumbard -- The loom and the bridge / Barry C. McDonald -- The Sunna : the way of the prophet Muhammad / Hamza Yusuf Hanson -- Vision of the Shariat / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore -- The Shari'a : law as the way of God / Mohammad Hashim Kamali -- A man on the road to God / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore -- What is Sunni Islam? / Feisal Abdul Rauf -- What is Shiite Islam? / Azim Nanji and Farhad Daftary -- Beginning the prayer / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore -- What is Sufism? / Ahmet T. Karamustafa --

v. 2. Voices of the spirit -- Abraham's call : the pilgrimage and the call to prayer / Virginia Gray Henry-Blakemore -- Prayer at the Ka'ba / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore -- The importance and meaning of prayer in Islam / Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani -- Vigil / Barry C. McDonald -- Dhikr, a door that when knocked, opens : an essay on the remembrance of God / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore -- There was no one like him / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore -- A spiritual tour of the prophet's city (Medina) / Daoud Stephen Casewit -- Sparrow on the prophet's tomb / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore -- In the realm of mercy : a visit to a Shiite shrine / Karima Diane Alavi -- The passion of the 'Ashura in Shiite Islam / Kamran Scot Aghaie -- The hidden and the most hidden : the heart as a source of spiritual guidance / Shaykh 'Ali Jum'a -- Evil as the absence of the good / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- The blessed state of fear : reflections from Islam and Christianity / Virginia Gray Henry-Blakemore -- Thomas Merton and a Sufi saint / Virginia Gray Henry-Blakemore -- The Sufi way of love and peace / Nasrollah Pourjavady -- Sufi women's spirituality : a theology of servitude / Rkia Elaroui Cornell -- Fatima al-Yashrutiyya : the life and practice of a Sufi woman and teacher / Leslie Cadavid -- God's madman / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore -- Jihad in Islam / Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani -- Letter to mankind / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore --

v. 3. Voices of life : family, home, and society -- The fabric of Muslim daily life / Susan L. Douglas -- Islam, culture, and women in a Bangladesh village / Sarwar Alam -- Marriage in Islam / Nargis Virani -- The spiritual significance of marriage in Islam / Jane Fatima Casewit -- Respect for the mother in Islam / Aliah Schleifer -- Pregnancy and childbirth in Islam / Aliah Schleifer -- The birth of Aliya Maryam / Seemi Bushra Ghazi -- Even at night the sun is there : illness as a blessing from God / Virginia Gray Henry-Blakemore -- Caring for the ill in Islam / Kristin Zahra Sands -- The miracle of pain / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore -- Death and burial in Islam / Rkia Elaroui Cornell -- Reflections on death and loss / Feisal Abdul Rauf -- Die before you die / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore -- Sufi foundations of the ethics of social life in Islam / Kenneth Lee Honerkamp -- Islam and business / Abdulkader Thomas --

v. 4. Voices of art, beauty, and science -- Islamic art / Frithjof Schuon -- The foundations of Islamic art / Titus Burckhardt -- The common language of Islamic art / Titus Burckhardt -- The art and ambience of Islamic dress / Frithjof Schuon -- The question of images / Titus Burckhardt -- The art of Qur'an calligraphy / Martin Lings -- The art of Qur'an illumination / Martin Lings -- Art and liturgy / Titus Burckhardt -- Music and spirituality in Islam / Jean-Louis Michon -- Regaining the center : gardens and thresholds / Virginia Gray Henry-Blakemore -- The Islamic garden : history, symbolism, and the Qur'an / Emma C. Clark -- The Qur'anic symbolism of water / Martin Lings -- Islamic literatures : writing in the shade of the Qur'an / Shawkat M. Toorawa -- Moths and scattered flames : some thoughts on Islam and poetry / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore -- Medicine and healing in traditional Islam / Laleh Bakhtiar --

v. 5. Voices of change -- Introduction : Islamic modernism and the challenge of reform / Omid Safi -- Creativity, innovation, and heresy in Islam / Umar F. Abd-Allah -- Is "Islamic" philosophy Islamic? / Mohammad Azadpur -- Islam for the people : Muslim men's voices on race and ethnicity in the American umma / Jamillah A. Karim -- Islam in the African American experience / Aminah Beverly McCloud -- Islam and gender justice / Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Transitions in the "progress" of civilization : theorizing history, practice, and tradition / Ebrahim Moosa -- Sexual diversity in Islam / Scott Sirajul Haqq Kugle -- Sufism in the west : Islam in an interspiritual age / Hugh Talat Halman -- I and thou in a fluid world : beyond "Islam versus the west" / Omid Safi.